Comparing A Rose For Emily And The Yellow Wallpaper

Professor Madigan
English 1C
3 April 2010
Yellow Roses
William Faulkner’s “A rose for Emily” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” are two short stories both incorporate qualities of similarities and differences. Both of the short stories are about how and why a woman changed from loneliness to craziness. Also, these two short stories both are the product of male influences, oftentimes negative ones and much of their rage is intermixed with occasional feelings of love. These women are forced into loneliness only because of the era they are woman. Emily’s father rejects all of her likely mates; the husband of Gilman’s narrator isolates her from stimulation of any kind. Eventually, Emily is an unsocial trapped in a deprecated
Perhaps that is what makes these stories so compelling, that it’s hard to determine emotion with any certainty. One things that is clear is the way male has power and repression has an effect on these black and forth feelings of love and hate. All of these two female main characters seem to want to love the men that had so much control over them, but in the end, they snap under big emotional weight of this male repression. The male domination, which leads to female repression in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is while at heart, still the same in the basic terms that a woman’s emotions are suppress until a breaking point, there are a few key differences. Therefore, her feelings of love and hate can’t be expressed naturally and instead of seeing her own loves and hates, she puts her emotions onto the woman in the wallpaper. Therefore, her feelings of love and hate can’t be expressed naturally and instead of seeing her own loves and hates, she puts her emotions onto the woman in the wallpaper. In terms of this suggestion about oppression, in “A Rose for Emily”, there is yet another example of a woman whose feelings of love and hate are suppressed due to male influences. In “A Rose for Emily”, the male is represented as very powerful and dominating and it’s her father. There is an interesting description of him next to Emily that the narration describes. According to Faulkner 483, “Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door”. This imagery of the father with the whip next to a breakable Emily against a white background tends to make one see the domination nature of their relationship better than any long passages of their conversations ever could. Emily’s an